Game device



Patented Mar. 17, 1925.

UNITED STATES rsaaais;

WILLIAM H. PUGH, 0F SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

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Application filed April 30, 1924. Serial No. 709,989.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. Pnerr, a citizen of the United States, residin at Sacramento, county of Sacramento, tate of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates toimprovements in accessories to be used in connection with the playing of the game known as Mah jongg, Ma cheuck and by other names. I

My principal object is to provide a device to receive one of the tile used in playing the game as it is discarded by a player, so as to temporarily render such tile more readily visible to the succeeding players than if it were at once placed on the table with the other discarded tile as is now customary.

Another object is to provide a device for the purpose which has symbols impressed thereon at opposed points, the device being adapted to be turned as may be necessary so that the symbols face the different players whose positions, corresponding to these symbols, are arbitrarily fixed for each hand or game by the rules of the game, but which it is sometimes hard to remember.

The advantages had with the use of my device will therefore be appreciated by those who play the game.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views 1 players.

in readily legible form letters 4. denoting the various winds, each player being arbitrarily assigned one such wind, as is well known.

Also arranged in connection with the wind letters are numbers 5 which arbitrarily have a fixed relation to the letters.

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In playing the game, the player who is 7 East Wind is chosen in the customary I manner, and the pedestal is then set on the playing table, centrally of the walls of tile, with the letter E facing the corresponding player. The other letters on the pedestal will then automatically face the other players in the proper relation to their respective positions, and should any player temporarily forget which 'Wind he is, he has only to glance at the pedestal in front of him to be reassured on this point.

When a player discards a tile while playing the game, instead of placing it on the tablealong with other similar tile, he places it on the top of the pedestal, where it is in plain and unmistakable View of the' other The succeeding player may then take up this tile'and place his own discard tile on the pedestal instead, or if he does not desire to use the original tile, he dislodges it from the pedestal by his own discard tile,

since only one tile at a time can occupy the top of the pedestal. -By reason of the depression 2, the tile will not slide off the pedestal too easily, or by any jar imparted to the, table. v I

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention asset forth herein. I

WVhile this specification sets'forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the ing a pedestal having a fiat top surrounded invention, as defined by the appended claim. by a shallow rim With arbitrary symbols Having thus described my invention, What permanently impressed on the sides of the 10 I claim as new and useful. and desire to se pedestal at diametrically opposed points 5 cure by Letters Patent is: r thereon. v p

As a new article of manufacture, a device In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. for use in connection with a game comprisi V I WILLIAM H. PUGH'. 

